SENTENCED. Billy Glaze, a drifter who posed as an American...

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February 12, 1989

MINNEAPOLIS — SENTENCED. Billy Glaze, a drifter who posed as an American Indian, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering and sexually mutilating three Indian women. ''Everybody's happy,'' said Eleanor Evans, one of several American Indian Movement activists in the courtroom Friday night. ''I think there is a sense of relief,'' said AIM member Don McCoy. ''It has a tendency to restore my faith in the legal system.'' Jurors convicted Glaze, 45, on three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder in the slayings of Kathleen Bullman, 19, Angeline Whitebird-Sweet, 26, and Angela Green, 21, in 1986 and 1987. Glaze showed no emotion as the verdict was read, but he told Hennepin County Judge Jonathan Lebedoff, ''I'm not the serial killer.'' Glaze will be eligible for parole in 52 years.